As a baby I was born with a pituitary issue which meant my hands and feet were abnormally small. They never grew that large at all. I can run and walk fine and they’re not deformed or anything, just tiny. I might have some weird world record for smallest hands and feet on a fully grown adult!

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    You should snowboard! I’ve got size 12 and I’m always getting toe and heel drag when I carve too deep. But you would never need to worry about that. Fucking super power.

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      Yeah for sure. I wanted to go snowboarding once but the rental place only went down to a kid’s size 4 which was too big for me (I’m really a size 2 without orthotics). So if I could find boots that fit, I’d be up for it!

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    Do you work at Dunder Mifflin ? Or is this standard office decor in America ?

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    It always bummed me out that the larger size sneakers were usually ugly compared to the smaller display models. Consider yourself lucky there.

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    In some dark corner of the internet, there is someone willing to pay a LOT of money for videos of you doing weird shit with your feet.

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    You know what they say about guys with tiny feet…

    They have a helluva time finding shoes that fit right.

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        He could be the monster in a climbing based horror franchise.

        Born with small feet, he was banished to the mountains where he turned his curse into a means for survival.

        Wide shot of a group of hunters following a trail near a rock face

        “I thought it was wolves eat’n all them sheep. Couldn’t have imagined that small feet kid lived all those years out here alone.”

        “It’s a confounding thought, Emmit, how you think that thing managed?”

        “Boy howdy, that’s the mystery of it all. Maybe we ought not to know.”

        Pan up to show small feet guy perched on a narrow rock ledge above. He jumps down, fade to black over hunters screaming.

        “This summer, remember to look up.”

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    Lucky bastard, kids shoes are tax free!

    I know this cos my wife has got 34 feet too and is delighted every time she finds a bargain

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        This actually gave me a much better perspective, cause I couldn’t really tell from the original photo. And holy crow, that’s kinda wild! I would absolutely be wearing the coolest kids shoes

        Does it cause you any issues with gait/balance? Or anything else most people wouldn’t think about?

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          Not as many issues as you might think. Of course, I have a smaller foot surface area to work with so not as steady on my toes but I have strong foot and calf muscles to compensate I think and keep me relatively stable. I can run fine but kid’s shoes are not designed for a 6’1" 170 lb man to be running in them so I go through shoes like crazy. Mostly it’s just social issues - my feet and hands are quite noticeably small so I get comments from strangers a lot. But I just try to laugh it off and be good humored about it.

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    I just don’t get how all of your other bones grew while your hands and feet didn’t. Your pituitary just outputs growth hormone (among other things), and then your liver converts that to the more active form, igf1. Seems like there must have been some lowered expression of igf1 in the bones of your hands and feet somehow which would be neat

    When you shake people’s hands, does it ever throw people off?

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      Yes that’s essentially what’s happened. And yes, definitely throws people off. Everyone’s hands inevitably swallow mine during handshakes.

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        An old friend of mine was born with two fingers and a thumb on his right hand. Instead of awkward left hand handshakes he just owns it and freaks people out.

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          A friend of a friend was born without arms and he does the same thing. His is up there on my list of most fascinating handshakes. He doesn’t pay bus fare either.